Concentration and power in the food system
Subtitle: who controls what we eat?
By: Philip H. Howard
Series: Contemporary food studies: economy, culture and politics -- volume 3; Contemporary food studies: economy, culture and politics -- v. 3.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 207
ISBN-13: 9781472581112; 9781472581129
Subjects: Food industry and trade; Food supply
Other titles: Who controls what we eat?
Description: "A compelling, vital contribution to our understanding of the global food system and essential reading for students in food studies, agriculture, agri-food and geography"--Page [4] of cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages [155]-193) and index.
Table of contents: title: Food system concentration: a political economy perspective; title: Reinterpreting antitrust: retailing; title: Structuring dependency: distribution; title: Engineering consumption: packaged foods and beverages; title: Manipulating prices: commodity processing; title: Subsidizing the treadmill: farming and ranching; title: Enforcing the new enclosures: agricultural inputs; title: Standardizing resistance: the organic food chain; title: Endgame?